 By the rude bridge that arched the flood, Their flag to April's breeze unfurled, Here once the embattled farmers stood, And fired the shot heard round the world. The foe long since in silence slept; Alike the conqueror silent sleeps; And Time the ruined...  The Old South Leaflets: Annual ser - Page 41883Full view - About this book
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1808 - 168 pages
...stream which seaward creeps. On this green bank, by this soft stream, We set to-day a votive stone ; 10 That memory may their deed redeem, When, like our...heroes dare To die, and leave their children free, Bid Time and Nature gently spare 15 The shaft we raise to them and thee. THE HUMBLE-BEE. BURLY, dozing... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1847 - 264 pages
...in God, in Godhead found.' HYMN: SUNG AT THE COMPLETION OF THE CONCORD MONUMENT, April 19, 1836. BY the rude bridge that arched the flood, Their flag...gone. Spirit, that made those heroes dare To die, or leave their children free, Bid Time and Nature gently spare The shaft we raise to them and thee.... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - American poetry - 1847 - 244 pages
...Lost in God, in Godhead found. HYMN. SUNG AT THE COMPLETION OF CONCORD MONUMENT, APKIL 19, 1836. BY the rude bridge that arched the flood, Their flag...redeem, When like our sires our sons are gone. Spirit! who made those freemen dare To die, or leave their children free, Bid time and nature gently spare... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes, Nathaniel Hawthorne, James Russell Lowell, John Greenleaf Whittier, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - American literature - 1850 - 388 pages
...DICKENS to this new world. ON THE COMPLETION OF THE MONUMENT AT CONCORD, APRIL, 1836. BY BW EMERSON. BY the rude bridge that arched the flood, Their flag...gone. Spirit, that made those heroes dare To die, or leave their children free, Bid Time and Nature gently spare The shaft we raise to them and thee.... | |
 | Authors, American - 1853 - 516 pages
...has swept Down the dark stream that scawnnl creeps. " On this green bank, by this soft stream, We sec to-day a votive stone, That memory may their deed redeem, When, like our sires, our sons nre gone. " Spirit that made these heroes dare To die, or leave their children free, Bid Time and Nature... | |
 | Authors, American - 1853 - 478 pages
...has swept Down the dark stream that seaward creeps. "On this green bank, by this soft stream, We see to-day a votive stone, That memory may their deed redeem, When, like our sires, our sous are gone. " Spirit that made these heroes dare To die, or leave their children free, Bid Time... | |
 | Benjamin Nicholas Martin - American literature - 1871 - 236 pages
...EMERSON. 1803-. (Manual, pp. 478, 503, 531.) 285. HYMN SUNG AT THE COMPLETION OF THE CONCORD MONUMENT. BY the rude bridge that arched the flood, Their flag...gone. Spirit, that made those heroes dare To die, or leave their children free, Bid Time and Nature gently spare The shaft we raise to them and thee.... | |
 | New England Historic Genealogical Society - Fourth of July orations - 1875 - 196 pages
...the world ;' and thus enable future visitors to realize, as far as may be, both actors and scene ; ' That memory may their deed redeem, When, like our sires, our sons are gone.' " To properly carry out this plan, the town or its citizens may be called upon to provide additional... | |
 | New England - 1875 - 562 pages
...the world ;' and thus enable future visitors to realize, as far as may be, both actors and scene ; ' That memory may their deed redeem, When, like our sires, our sons arc gone.' " To properly carry out this plan, the town or its citizens may be called upon to provide... | |
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